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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/1] mm/percpu.c: fix memory leakage issue when allocate a odd alignment area
On Tue 11-10-16 21:24:50, zijun_hu wrote:
> From: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@htc.com>
>
> the LSB of a chunk->map element is used for free/in-use flag of a area
> and the other bits for offset, the sufficient and necessary condition of
> this usage is that both size and alignment of a area must be even numbers
> however, pcpu_alloc() doesn't force its @align parameter a even number
> explicitly, so a odd @align maybe causes a series of errors, see below
> example for concrete descriptions.

Is or was there any user who would use a different than even (or power of 2)
alighment? If not is this really worth handling?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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